Derridada

Jacques Derrida said that deconstruction "takes place everywhere." Derridada reexamines the work of artist Marcel Duchamp as one of these places. Tucker suggests that Duchamp belongs to deconstruction as much as deconstruction belongs to Duchamp. Both bear the infra-thin mark of the other. He explores these marks through the themes of time and différance, language and the readymade, and the construction of self-identity through art.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in Modernism and the avant-garde. It will be useful for undergraduate students of art history, modernism, and critical theory, as well as for graduate students of philosophy, visual culture studies, and art theory.

Thomas Deane Tucker is a professor in the Department of English and Humanities at Chadron State College.

Chapter 1 Chapter One. A Time for Deconstruction
Chapter 2 Chapter Two. Ashes to Dust, Dust to Ashes
Chapter 3 Chapter Three. Indifférance
Chapter 4 Chapter Four. Personas